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A herb or subshrub, perennial, forming low bushes; rootstock woody; stems erect, 6-8 in. high, bearing spreading branches 2-4 in. long, angled and grooved; leaves distant, spreading, 3-4 lin. long, subulate, acute, with colourless tips; inflorescences in simple or compound spikes or racemes; flowers either single and sessile in the axils of bracts or borne in short 3-flowered axillary cymes; bracts lanceolate, acute, equal in length to or half as long again as flower, sessile an axis or adnate to the peduncle; bracteoles springing from the bract-axil, shorter than the flower; perianth white, about 1 1/4 lin. long; segments elliptic-ovate, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, apex hooded and with upper part of margin densely bearded; filaments 1/5 lin. long; anthers about 1/3 lin. long; style 3/8 lin. long; fruit ovoid, 1 1/2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, immature, ribs obscure.
Stems branched from the base; branches ascending, slender, sharply angular or almost winged, sulcate between the angles, glabrous; leaves linear, very acute, 1/4-1/2 in. long, keeled below, flat or nearly so and prominently 1-nerved on the upper surface, glabrous; flowers solitary in the bract axil, subsessile; bract shortly adnate to the very short peduncle, longer than the flower, very similar to the leaves; bracteoles about as long as the flowers, narrowly linear, acute; perianth 1 1/3 lin. long; segments with conspicuous external glands, lanceolate, subacute, 3/4 lin. long, hooded, bearded at the apex; anther exserted from the perianth-tube, 1/4 lin. long; style 3/4-4/5 lin. long, reaching to the middle or top of the anthers; fruits elongate-ellipsoid, about 2 lin. long including the persistent perianth, with fairly conspicuous ribs and reticulation.
Perennial herb, dwarf shrub or shrub, 0.1-1.0 m high. Stems erect with spreading branches. Leaves distant, spreading, subulate, apex acute with colourless tips, recurved. Flowers: either single and sessile in axils of bracts or gathered in a terminal raceme-like inflorescence; bracts narrowly ovate, rounded on back, equal in length top or half as long as flower, sessile on axis or adnate to peduncle, margins entire, glabrous; perianth bearded, ± 2.65 mm long, segments elliptic-ovate, 1.6 mm long, apex hooded, upper part of margins densely bearded, white; Sep.-Feb. Fruit ovoid, ± 3 mm long, ribbed.
Perennial herb with a woody taproot up to c. 15 mm diameter at crown and woody stolons up to c. 10 mm in diameter; stems many tufted from the crown and at intervals along the stolons, 90–400 mm long, erect or ± sprawling, well branched from the base, shallowly ribbed by decurrent leaves and bracts, leafy.
Bracts (lowermost) 3.2–8 × 0.6–1.5 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, markedly apiculate, adnate to the entire pedicel/peduncle, often strongly recurved, margins often very minutely scabridulous; bracteoles 2, 1.5–3.5 × 0.4–0.8 mm, resembling the bracts but only about half their length.
Leaves spreading or ascending, often up-or down-curved, c. 8–20(30) × 0.6–1.6 mm on middle part of stems, smaller upwards and passing into bracts, linear, apex tapered into a long acumen, margins pale, cartilaginous, often minutely scabridulous.
Flowers often solitary in the axils of the bracts, sometimes some in 3-flowered cymules, 6–17 racemosely arranged, terminal flowers the oldest, often in a 3-flowered cymule, the “racemes” further arranged in large much branched panicles.
Small, erect, much-branched herb, up to 200 mm tall. Leaves with recurved tips. Flowers usually in 3-flowered pedunculate cymules in bract axils arranged in racemes; white.
Herb, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves straight. Flowers usually in 3-flowered pedunculate cymules in axils of bracts, arranged in racemes. Flowers white.
Stamens inserted at base of perianth lobes; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm long, almost or quite hidden by anthers; anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long.
Slender herb, up to 450 mm tall. Leaves narrowly linear, curved. Perianth with external glands conspicuous. Flowers pale brown.
Perianth greenish outside; tube 0.7–1 mm long; lobes 1.3–1.7 × 0.7–1 mm, triangular, subacute, white-bearded from apex.
Herb, up to 160 mm tall, green not glaucous. Leaves 4-20 mm long, spreading or ascending. Flowers 76-127 mm a cymule.
Fruit 2.5(4) × 2.25–2.5(3.6) mm, light yellowish-brown, strongly ribbed and reticulate.
Style 0.6–1 mm long; stigma reaching top of tube.
Pedicels/peduncles 0–2(3) mm long.
